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To be honest Im not really sure what the tech guide is taking about. I posted this to see if anyone had heard about tis or knows the part. I'm going to sit in front of the engine with the Haynes manual, a beer and a set of jumper cables and see if I can't figure it out. It may not apply at all to these engines. I am just a guy looking for a fix to an annoying problem. Its mostly annoying because I'm about to visit my folks for thanksgiving and my dad gets this real worried look on his face when ever he hears my car start. sly just looked in Haynes manual- having a date range from 81-95 its a little too broad to cover this and the only engine pic it has is an older engine with the big round air cleaner on top.

Check this out: "Mid 90's Nissan 3.0 engines may develop a ticking noise in the valve train which sounds like valve lifters. Before declaring bad valve lash, take a jumper wire and ground the solenoid controlling the variable valve timing gear. It is pretty obvious -- sticking up out of the valve cover. You only need access to one -- the easiest one(for a change) because they are in series. grounding the solenoid traps the oil in the gears. With the engine idling, and the noise present, ground the lead. If the noise goes away, you have found the problem. Nissan has a TSB for this: Replace just the spring. According to my sources, however, it is better to replace the entire gear. The spring doesn't always fix the problem, but replacing the gear assembly will. Do the job once, and the customer pays -- do the job a second time and someone pays (not always the customer -- at least willingly)." Its a tech tips page from a mechanic out in Sedona, AZ. Hey all, I like most owners of a older pathfinder am familiar with the noise of the leaking manifold. I am also the proud owner of a mysterious tapping noise that some mechanics call valve tap, others call piston slap and still others bad rod bearings. No one will give me a solid aswer to the question of what is that noise. It is definately louder at startup, but never quite goes away. At idle it soulds like a diesel only slower and quieter, something which other people including complete strangers have told me as well. It does not seem to effect performance. I swear that when I bought it it was much quieter, I don't know if that was something the stealer did or if it was becasue it had been on the lot for a while, but within a month or so it was present and quite noticeable. I was checking out the wd21 forums when i came accross a link that led to the above info. Has anyone ever heard of this? Does it apply to the engine in my '95? I guess I'll find out. I'm going to try it thisweekend let me know if you all have heard of this or if it is BS thanks and have a good night http://www.asaaz.org/canyonauto/techtips.htm#nissan%203.0

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putting in window

taking out divider

Hey yall it's done. what a PITA. I went back out after taking a break to tint the window before i put it in.( it took me three tries to get it right and I ended up screwing it up anyway in the installation process-arrgh). Step one was to remove the door panel. Pretty easy except for figuring out how to get to the screws behind the arm rest. I ended up hitting the back end of it with the heel of my hand in an upward direction and it popped right off. Next was to take out the divider. The salvage yard sent me the whole set up, glass divider and rubber gasket-so i had a better idea of where to look for the screws. There is one at the top under the door rubber and two gold colored ones on the door panel. After getting it loose Ii tried for a while different ways of getting the window/gasket combo into the hole. I finally realized that it was not going to fit and that I needed to take out the other window. This just involves taking out the two screws holding it in place and carefully pulling it out. I was now able to move the divider over enough that it left plenty of room in the window hole. Now I had a flash of memory from when I was trying to find info on how to do this. It was for a different car but I remember reading that you had to put it in at a 45 degree angle an roll it back. The hole in the top of the door is big enough to fit the bottom corner of the gasket in there and then get the rest into the frame. This part was kind of scary. I had some left over soapy water from the tint, so I lubed up the gasket, took hold of the window and pulled it towards me(standing at the edge of the open door. I kept having thoughts of it breaking in my hands and a bloody ride to the ER. It finally went in and all that was left was to reassemble every thing. Now it looks about the same as it did before, although the tint is a slightly different color. OH well.

OK so the glass came in today. I pulled the panel off took out the screws that hold the divider in place and now I'm stuck----it kind of looks like a square peg in round hole deal. If only they made flexible glass! If I took out the roll up window I could get the vent window in no problem, but then I'm back to square one. How to get the glass back in. GRRRR i hate not being able to figure this stuff out. if anybody has a suggestion I'm going to eat some dinner and then have at it again. SEE YA

Hey thanks for the response. The glass I'm talking about is the smaller piece that is in the door. Its a 95 by the way. I'm thinking I need to take the panel off the door and some how work it in that way. I know on other cars there are usually screws that let you loosen the divider. I let you know how it goes and take some pics when the glass comes in. nice call on the plexi. That would look much better then my fix. I took a thin piece of plywood cut it to size and then wrapped it in black duct tape to weather proof it. A few more pieces of the black gold to seal it up and hold it in place and its good to go. see ya

Hello pathy people, I need your help. Last week some A$$ munch busted out the drivers side vent window in the dark of night. I have no idea why , seeing how my 6x9 boxes were inches away, but nothing was stolen. It looked like someone hit it with a screw driver, as there was a flathead sized scrape on the window molding. I can only hope that the broken glass clinging to the tint film caused some nasty scratches. Anyhow-I finally found the part i needed and now am wondering how to go about doing this. I 'm not asking for a step by step, I am pretty good at tearing things apart, I just need some hints on where to start. thanks in advance bone and ticker